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"See? I hardly ever disagree with you. I especially like this one:"

I understand. There's a lot of noisy, overlapping propaganda going around. I try to be wary of that. Many of us focus more on the big picture and less on individual personalities now. I refuse to keep my eye on one individual who is not as politically powerful as advertised in propaganda. Who are the constituents behind each politician? The most influential support all of the prevalent politicians.

I'm stating my own position here rather than trying much to convince anyone. Maybe some people will get something out of it for further study, though.

On foreign relations, I don't want to see more of certain leading elements of certain eastern nations expanding to take other nations or their elite brought here so quickly except for the truly decent and friendly ones. Widely allowed murders, kidnappings and other corruption are far more rampant than here in more than one of those cultures. Public speech is more censored. Some of those cultures have severe penalties for sodomy while having paradigms of forcible sodomy committed every day by many. Terrible drug problems, too, despite severe penalties.

Sometimes, tens of thousands of people are herded from one region to another as slaves on a whim of political party favorites. Imagine even more of those elements dominating and conquering parts of the rest of the world and brought here by the tens of millions through efforts with trading partners.